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Also like, for years Russia has been sending covert ops to assassinate people and blow up factories in the European Union - countries they're not actually at war with?!?
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There are very few people in the United States with more power or a larger platform than Elon Musk and the President feels comfortable issuing what is close to an explicit threat against him on the record to an NBC reporter.
Who do you imagine he wouldn't feel comfortable threatening?
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Hmm...
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That's basically a mix of A and B!
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"I decided to stay out of politics. Here are my views on immigration, transgender rights, the economy and all the other issues on which the woke mind virus infected Democrats threaten the very fabric of American society."
by Elon Musk
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It's such an honor to share a stage with the greatest of all time, is what I imagine she is thinking.
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Do not pick this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yxa...
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Hillary Clinton had plans on everything. Costed. Detailed. Cross-referenced and footnoted.
She lost to a bunch of stories about how she was a bitch with poor email security who slept on Benghazi while her opponent was going to save the country in some unspecified way.
These people are brain-dead.
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Yeah, I mean "tall, dark, and handsome" is a trope for a reason, but I still think it's not as prevelant as popular culture would have you believe.
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"The reason women are overlooking you isn't that you're a creepy wierdo with no redeeming features who gives off 'guard your drink' vibes - it's that women are actually exclusively interested in dating 6'5" blue eyes in finance with a trust fund, remember to like and subscribe!"
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I suspect this is one of those things where some women have in the past expressed a preference on Hinge/Tinder for taller men, and this has been blown out of all proportion (sorry) by the cottage industry of outrage merchants who farm anecdotes for viral 'evidence' that women are all shallow jerks.
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I want to assure you no one considers trade policy to be a serious science.
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Yes, many of my followers are surprised to learn I'm also into trade policy.
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3am isn't for making a husband's lunch.
It's for making suspiciously thirsty fancams of Hyunjin.
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"Benevolent God-Emperor shows mewling mortals his infinite generosity by withdrawing the Sword of Damocles that is his wroth from above their unworthy, cowed heads."
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Having a ripper swarm eat your brain would be a very effective cure for the Woke Mind Virus, to be fair.
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Hormogaunts when? 😟
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Which would be karmically satisfying but utterly devastating globally.
Chances are a good chunk of your pension fund is sitting in t-bills right now.
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Trump wants to do stuff on trade. His preference is to do deals he can sell as huge wins that show he fought and won for America.
If no one's buying that, his options become looking 'strong' while kidney-shotting the economy or looking weak by backing down.
Not sure he'll choose the right one.
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Yeah, but given the choice between looking weak and looking strong, he may choose the latter in the hopes that economic consequences either materialize later or can be explained/gaslit away.
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Now, you might say that politically a higher scepticism toward "great, amazing, no one's ever seen anything like it" deals that don't do anything is good. I agree. I literally wrote the book on how to see through stuff like that.
Unfortunately, if he can't sell peace as a win, he may choose war.
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Economics plays a laughably small role in trade negotiations, especially Trumpian ones.
It's all about what he can sell as a win, his mind-map of grievances, and who he feels is playing ball with him.
Having everything viewed through a TACO lens makes it harder for him to sell caving as a win.
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I hope I'm still alive when the Tyranids eat you.
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... and Nigel Farage is working hard to deport him.
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Knowing where all the Hive Fleets active in our galaxy are at all times is just basic common sense.
Can't risk waking up with a splinter fleet in your backyard and the Shadow in the Warp blocking astropathic communications before your distress signal can go out.
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Put me in your newspaper!
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This is true, notwithstanding The Magna 'Mario' Carta.
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Nope, way before.
CHAFTA entered into force in 2015, but some of its tariff reductions were phased in over a decade.
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China won (and Trump fumbled) the messaging game around the trade war so hard that people are convinced having $500 billion in exports locked out of the US economy was somehow not a problem for China.
I promise you, they weren't loving it.
Better prepared, more resilient, but still hurting.
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And often is... ladies.
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Oh, so 200 year old condoms you'll read?!?
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"Count me in" she touch-types confidently and hits send before glancing at the screen.
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Trussonomics!
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Were the latter two questions posed only to those who said "yes" to the first question?
Because otherwise only like 4% of Britain wants more defense spending but opposes both taxes and spending cuts to get there..?
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A lot of the missiles are being air-launched by these bombers, which massively increases their range because they don't have to waste fuel taking off and getting to altitude.
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Much easier to replace BMPs and grunts than $7 billion+ in airframes half the parts of which are on sanctions lists.
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Sure, though I don't think Ukraine would have bothered with this operation if it could light up any target within 500km with a Taurus launched from the safety of a command bunker outside Kherson.