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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
This is the politics page, after all, and the politics are bad for this Administration. It did nothing to build any public support for this. And there is none. So Democrats will be in attack mode. And generally their attacks are going to be consistent with the misgivings of a majority of Americans, who are a people since Vietnam who are typically pretty skeptical of foreign adventurism (though they typically come around to it after the government makes a case). Republicans have none of their personal credibility wrapped up in this. No Republican in Congress voted for this. They’re free to point that out. And they will. If this goes south, Ted Cruz will absolutely use this to attack JD Vance. MTG will attack Marco Rubio. Contrast that with the Iraq invasion. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton voted for that shit. So in 2004, they couldn’t credibly attack Bush in the issue. In the meantime, the Republicans stayed unified on it until well after it became a serious political problem. Look—I’m not give you any nonsense about the Constitution. Save that for the DT. There’s a real political reason you inform Congress and get just a little buy-in. But these people are too stupid to understand that.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Honest question: what in our long history of foreign adventurism gives you any reason to think it’s even conceivable that we will do this right and not “pull an Iraq?”
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
The apparent “plan” that we’re going to send a bunch of Chevron engineers into the most lawless and dangerous country on Earth without any immediate security measures is honestly pretty funny in its complete stupidity.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
So if we’re just going to go in and steal Venezuela’s oil, the price of oil will presumably drop pretty significantly. That’ll be fun to see the reaction among all the Trumpublicans in West Texas who’ve gotten fat and happy off their royalty checks.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Wait—so now we’re going to “run” Venezuela? Like occupy it? …or is that to say that we have no fucking plan.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Is Kegseth going to just go ahead, pull out his little peen, and start stroking it right there at the lectern?
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African Safari
That's a really hard question. It really depends on what your priorities are and how energetic you are. We had five days at the Angama Mara in the Maasai Mara. I might have liked an extra couple days--one to find a damned cheetah and another just to sit out on the deck and watch the valley floor from the Lodge with a cocktail in hand. The latter would've been really nice to have, because that travel is a butt-kicker. And then there's the other non-safari activities you might be interested in. Most of the lodges are going to have available some sort of cultural activity touring a local village or something like that. It's worth the time. In October, the Great Migration will be in the Maasai Mara; by November the wildebeest will have moved back down into the Serengeti. If that fits into your plans, I would say that you'd want a couple days following the wildebeest herd on top of your five or six days looking for other animals. Between the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara, I think we had in the neighborhood of seven days on safari. That's maybe about right. But if you wanted to do more, it's not like you were going to get bored. If you've been there a few days and you haven't seen something, you tell your guide and they're going to track it down for you.
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African Safari
I am more of a city guy when I travel--I'd much rather go to San Francisco than Yosemite or to Edinburgh than Cairngorns--but our African safari was one of my family's favorite trips. I'd put Kenya over Tanzania. It depends somewhat on what time of year you're going and where the wildebeest are on the Great Migration. But even so--I think we all preferred the Maasai Mara to Serengeti NP. But my preference for that may also have been from the property at which we stayed--the Angama Mara is one of the best properties I've ever stayed at. Zambia didn't have quite the wildlife variety on offer. But Victoria Falls way exceeded my expectations. For budgeting purposes, you should expect to spend $1,000 to $1,500 per person per day. That's generally going to cover all of your lodging, food, drinks, and wildlife fun. That is, however, exclusive of gratuities. That's a lot of coin. But at the same time, it's probably not outrageously greater than what you're going to spend in London or New York and doing the stuff you'd want to do in those cities. As I noted upthread, an African safari is unique in that it is something you almost always use a travel agent for. I booked most of the shit myself before I really figured that out. But there was one lodge we booked (and ended up really loving)--the Thorntree River Lodge in Zambia--that could only be booked through a travel agent. It's website wouldn't let you book directly. That's really weird, but there you have it.
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The Trump Economy
If that GDP number is right, then yes. And it would probably indicate that we're on the eve of a revolution.
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The Trump Economy
If that were true, then we'd have a real fucking problem with this economy. You'd be telling me that at a time when the economy grew by nearly 5%, it didn't create a single new job and payrolls remained flat. You'd be telling me that pretty much every dime of that increased economic activity went to . . . not anybody with a job or looking for one. IF that were true, then you'd have a real structural problem on your hands.
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