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by sigwinch 9mo ago
Author Knut Hamsun (1920 literature Nobel laureate) gave the medal to Goebbels. After the war, he was arrested and explained that extreme Anglophobia was the source of his sympathies with the Nazi regime. Born in 1859, he would have seen th
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by sigwinch 9mo ago
You’d think he’d want his name on a bunch of homes. Similarly, some salesman on the golf course has surely already pitched his name on a bunch of homes. I bet there’s a reason he’s been uninterested for so long.
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“Built to rent” lately occurs in the sun belt and Midwest, in which fall most of the swing states.
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I think the point is that he said he’d do it, and he’ll campaign that it’s done, even if nothing happens.
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Look into Trump Ocean Club in Panama. Openly popular for drug cartel money.
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I’d need to see numbers about how many such people cannot otherwise be found online. If we all pay higher mortgages and rent to subsidize those who use loopholes, it’s only possibly worth it.
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I feel like mortgage lenders should legitimately wonder why they’re lending to an LLC or a trust rather than an individual. I’m not sure there’s a good answer.
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by sigwinch 10mo ago
Even before Trump v. United States , Maduro would have enjoyed immunity as a head of state. They still need him as a source of info on the generals. And if the drug smuggling explanation works, cartel details justifying maneuvers in Mexico
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by sigwinch 10mo ago
I was replying to the comment along the lines of, what does MAGA care about China?
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Agreed, and it would have played out the same if Trump liked the abduction of the Dalai Llama for Tibetan oil.
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by sigwinch 10mo ago
Ok it sounds like the best drawn-out support for your argument goes like this: Since the Nov 21 call with Trump, Maduro and his wife knew to keep their bags packed. Maduro never had a strong hold on the generals, so gave them profitable org
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Very good. Do you think Trump is involved in day-to-day decision making? Is there a plan?
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Ah, this we agree on. I see revolutions as a net negative and it’s often an early propaganda point to frame it otherwise.
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Replying to your earlier comment: in terms of words spoken during the 2024 campaign, tariffs and immigration tied for first. I think MAGA heard “China” when tariffs was pronounced positively and “Hispanic” when immigration was pronounced ne
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by sigwinch 10mo ago
Those people were not condemning Fordow. But nearly everyone has high ground on Trump, so they don’t base their objections on simply having the high ground. He’s unfit to be president.
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What’s even funnier is that, in some kind of trial, Maduro should enjoy Presidential Immunity.
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I’m not sure we can compare US involvement between Venezuela and Bangladesh. It is interesting that Nobel prizes are involved in both.
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I think Trump got the news a bit late.
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This will be a real challenge, then. Who is performatively nimble enough to say “we’ve always been at war with Venezuela!”
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He’s also angling for the Supreme shortlist.
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Ok, so you hope debates here should charitably acknowledge wider aims. I think we can agree that campaign promises rarely align with those. But pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández means that precisely none of this is about Maduro at all .
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Plus, the stalemate on Taiwan right now is US strategic ambiguity. Maybe Trump “visiting” China to offer his strategic brilliance during their expansion will finally get him a bigger peace prize.
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One possibility is that Maduro’s security detail, mostly Cuban counterintelligence, have access to damaging Epstein records. Epstein was in contact with Castro as of 2003 and was able to travel there despite sanction which would have preven
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by sigwinch 10mo ago
Without Greene, the campaign goals of MAGA wither. The “I don’t start wars; I end wars” president doesn’t even have the fortitude to start by asking Congress. It’s not as much hyperbole as it sounds.
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During the 2024 campaign, oil executives met at Mar-a-Lago and agreed to pay $1B to Trump’s campaign. It is one or more of those men who will be interfacing with the Venezuelan generals about shifting their oil away from China.
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by sigwinch 10mo ago
I would hope for something stronger. Put a currency value on some kinds of info. To store my SSN and full name and military ID totals 20 units. Maybe a full name and home address is 15 units. If I agree to give you my info, you agree that I
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That’s right, and haven’t for a long time.
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Anthrax spores blasted out of the permafrost at pressure. It really seems like sooner or later, who could have guessed that this activity came with a curse?
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If you’re comparing Dubai and Abu Dhabi with New York City, there’s larger variation than, say, China and Brazil.
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Are they the same as receiving $20,000 in AWS credits?

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