You know when you’re not interested in something you can just say nothing.

This is one of the most flagrant abuses of the present tense I’ve ever seen. Well done.

Lol $1.25M is literal chump change. These guys are making literally 100x that every week from market manipulation and insider trading.

Oh and every time Trump golf’s at his own resort he’s shoveling money from the public purse into his own pocket - textbook corruption. It remains true no matter how desensitized we are to it.

I don’t think Diogenes was a drunk. He was rawdogging his equivalent of a cardboard box.

Lol

That would actually be massive escalation in more than the obvious ways. Gulf states are the ones buying up most US debt (which is piling up extremely quickly). This is a large part of their leverage to secure continues US military protection. Should the US Navy be used to block the straight to enforce some kind of all-or-nothing approach, it’s going to be cause a lot of knock on effects in the bond market. We do be living in interesting times!

Neither of those things has anything to do with this. You can eliminate the NASA budget and you still won’t have healthcare lol. You have to actually fight for that.

The uneducated ones have been going to war this whole time.

That would never happen because Cecil is (usually) competent.

Even if that weren’t true, the idea that this type of open corruption is grounds for firing in a Trump admin is laughable. Trump himself is far more corrupt, and hegseth being corrupt just goes further to ensure his loyalty. He can always have Bondi do a selective prosecution of this should he step out of line.

It’s basically kompromat that only Trump (through control of the DOJ through Bondi) can use.

We all said rightly that the president doesn’t control gas prices, at least those of us who had half a clue how economics worked did.

The logic is mostly sound because president’s don’t have a magic dial to control oil prices. But the logic also has sane decision making baked into it - president’s consider the effects that their actions will have on the price of oil and don’t do shit like this that will definitely increase it. Since that sanity no longer holds , the logic no longer holds .

The moment anyone else moves to assist he will simply bail out and walk away. He was actually dumb enough to say that out loud too. It would be strategically stupid and politically suicidal for anyone else to get involved.

Centralized problems are generally easier to solve than distributed problems. Depending on their architecture moving to an EU cloud provider could range from tricky but manageable to very painful , but it’s a centralized IT problem that can be attacked and solved. Getting every retail vendor to support Wero is much harder, and is being solved apparently.

China is getting Iranian oil right now and the US isn’t going to control Iran. Why would either of them commit to this? Pretending like you solved the problem when none of the incentives line up is ridiculous. Either of them could militarily defend Iran if they want to without commiting to a security guarantees for Iran. So why would they bind themselves unnecessarily?

Yes they could do that. But why would they commit to that?

Lol so now Russia China and Europe have to jump into militarily attack the US ? This is your plan? Well sounds solved to me.

The 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn’t vote in 2024 aren’t MAGA . They’re just some combination of dissolutioned and ignorant. They’re also not up to the task of navigating the pathetic state of the modern information environment.

Is that really what he said? Lol

This is basically just the Obama Iran deal. It was working pretty much exactly like this until Trump tore it up and began in multiple rounds attacking Iran.

After this war, Iran has no reason to sign such a deal especially since Trump and Israel will just tear it up whenever they want. Iran needs security guarantees which your deal doesn’t provide.

That’s legendary spawn for a fox.