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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
Yup.

The State Department went pants on head retarded and pushed globohomo and the Nigerians got fucking mad about it. They were told to quit repeatedly.


There were articles some time ago about how Uganda and Niger were threatened with a severance of foreign aid from the US if they didn't roll back their anti-LGBT laws.

In a little aside, remember how old fucks like me were arguing that trannies were non-deployable because they required constant medicine and we were all told to fuck off, it's the modern military, they can resupply anywhere anytime?

Yeah, take a look at the second to last paragraph in the bottom quote.
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Man the US could maybe win a war against Russia or China but we're doomed if we fight Uganda. How do you defeat a country where everybody knows kung fu?
 
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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
So, the new junta in Niger doesn't like us. The State Department fucked up by the numbers for the last few years, including pushing "LGBT Acceptance" and riling up the insurgents with stupid fucking actions and words.

The State Department suddenly told the DoD that they couldn't fly in supplies or reinforcements.

The Niger government brought in the Russinans.

US troops were on basically house arrest and locked down. (No, they can't fight their way out, even though there's 1,000 of them. They literally don't have the ammo for a sustained engagement. This was a drone base, and it doesn't need stupid ground pounder stuff, LOL) They were, in effect, hostages, while the State Department ran in circles trying to cover everything up.
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This is beyond embarrassing. It hasn't even been four years and we've already gotten our shit fucked up by two third world countries.
 
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CHICAGO V. MCDONALD* FOR FUCK'S SAKE
The biggest failure of the American justice system is that this judge will face zero consequences for flagrantly disregarding the will of the Supreme Court. There was a pretty good (by MSN standards) expose from Reuters about judging engaging in e.g. sex for lowered prison sentences, and AFAIK most of those judges are still on the bench.
 
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President Joe Biden's antitrust enforcement has been on a deal-blocking crusade ahead of the presidential elections in November.

On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission targeted the fashion industry for the first time. It sued to block Tapestry's $8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings, a deal that would combine Tapestry's Coach and Kate Spade brands with Capri's Michael Kors brand.

"If allowed, the deal would eliminate direct head-to-head competition between Tapestry's and Capri's brands. It would also give Tapestry a dominant share of the "accessible luxury" handbag market, a term coined by Tapestry to describe quality leather and craftsmanship handbags at an affordable price," FTC wrote in a statement.

The Biden administration is oddly concerned about luxury handbags at a time when inflation is reaccelerating and continues to decimate households nationwide. Many folks are plagued with an affordability crisis, such as barely affording gas at the pump, food at the supermarket, power bills, health insurance, rent, and multiple streaming platforms. Many have maxed out credit cards and drained personal savings to survive in the era of failed Bidenomics.

But for some reason, Biden and the radical leftists in the White House are more concerned about fashion...

"With the goal to become a serial acquirer, Tapestry seeks to acquire Capri to further entrench its stronghold in the fashion industry," Henry Liu, director of the FTC's competition bureau, said in a statement.

Liu continued, "This deal threatens to deprive consumers of the competition for affordable handbags, while hourly workers stand to lose the benefits of higher wages and more favorable workplace conditions."

FTC's move makes little sense, considering the federal agency has no issue with fashion behemoths like LVMH or Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, which owns 75 luxury brands across six sectors.

The Biden administration's decision to tackle the handbag market seems like a massive waste of time and taxpayer funds. If consumers want to spend money on overpriced made-in-China handbags, by all means, let them. Why not deal with anticompetitive activity in industries that are more relevant to the everyday lives of working poor Americans?

"There is no question that this is a pro-competitive, pro-consumer deal and that the FTC fundamentally misunderstands both the marketplace and the way in which consumers shop," Tapestry told the Financial Times in a statement.

The FTC "is the only regulator that did not approve this transaction, which received required approvals from all other jurisdictions," Capri continued. Regulators in Europe and Japan have approved the deal.

"Consumers have hundreds of handbag choices at every price point across all channels, and barriers to entry are low," Tapestry wrote in a separate statement, adding, "Capri intends to vigorously defend this case in court alongside Tapestry and complete the pending acquisition."

Bloomberg pointed out, "Since their appointment, Khan and Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter have brought the highest number of merger challenges since the US began requiring antitrust reviews before deals close in 1976" and "their success in litigation has been more mixed, however, with the FTC losing two high- profile challenges in its first year."

This administration really does have asinine people running almost every federal agency. The American people see this as polling data has collapsed for Biden and his woke clown show.
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"If allowed, the deal would eliminate direct head-to-head competition between Tapestry's and Capri's brands. It would also give Tapestry a dominant share of the "accessible luxury" handbag market, a term coined by Tapestry to describe quality leather
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b*den know his base well, women would rather vote for cheap handbags than to control low wages, inflation, and an invasion from the south
 
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One of those annoying cases where I agree with the outcome, noncompetes are bullshit, you don't get to ban a worker from utilizing their skillset if you're not paying them. However, I don't agree with the method, this shit should be law, not more 3 letter fiat.

You'd think Congress would chomp at the bit to waste time on stuff that isn't important on the grand scale like those laws, gives them a reason to not solve real problems. But some political strategist probably mentioned they could maybe get it wrong once in a while, and so its better to just do nothing. Losers all around.
 
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General Disarray said:
Economic contraction when they are getting billions more from the US? And the "no-win war" has been going on since Israel became a state, just because it's turned hot now doesn't mean it hasn't been this way for as long as I can remember. I am not a big-brain so can you explain to me how Israel is being hurt by any of this? Other than the human casualties which neither side give a shit about except as propaganda.

I've been seeing all my life these idiots screaming "get your filthy hands off my desert" and think the entire region should be rendered uninhabitable. It's insane the amount of hand-wringing and attention given to these two tiny "states." If you cannot hack having a country on your own without being propped up by the most powerful nation on Earth maybe you don't really have the right to exist (especially when our own borders seem to not matter one whit).
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They are hemorrhaging money, goodwill, and reputation. They are under frequent smart bomb attacks from all sides. They are losing people, albeit slowly. The government and military are losing credibility, though their performance to date has been great really. Instability, as in, the slide to war, is bad. War is a shitty way to make money. Arms manufacturers get to profiteer, but they also get to have the guns they're selling held to their head when shit gets serious. The basic logic of economies is drastically different in a war, and it's a much, much crueler and stupider one. Governments, if they're as corrupt and venal as you say, prefer peace and prefer making money. Even if they're not, they obviously do. The billions more they're getting are in the form of materiel. Not cash to Bibi's fucking swiss bank account. They're a real country, fighting a real war.

Why should the US help Israel? Because they do all right and pay for their shit eventually. Israel is a legitimate state. They're a prosperous state full of smart people. They're pretty democratic, that's better than a theocracy or a dictatorship or Arab Socialism, right? They make a lot of their own weapons and have a pretty sophisticated defense industry. They have a lot of high tech industry. They design chips for the iPhone and stuff! It's no joke, and it's not possible to have a complete defense plant for all of a modern military's needs on a country the size of New Jersey! Why shouldn't we sell them jets? Why shouldn't we support the only sane and civilized people in the region? Muh jews muh desert muh resources--America is still so rich it's insulting to those poor bastards, and every gun we sell redounds to our wealth and glory and kills our enemies and the people dumb enough to fight for our fat asses. Regardless of Israel being a bad idea on paper, they're there now, and if you've got the balls, get em to move, those hardasses in Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, and the IRGC are all not succeeding though. Israel has won all the wars up to date against all of their neighbors. Does conquest and prosperity not justify their existence enough? It justifies ours in America. And the guns didn't win the wars, they did. Settlement construction is dumb, and it's causing this horseshit now, but also, fuck Palestine, their society is bad, they should feel bad.
 
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Halfnium Bomb said:
CHICAGO V. MCDONALD* FOR FUCK'S SAKE
The biggest failure of the American justice system is that this judge will face zero consequences for flagrantly disregarding the will of the Supreme Court. There was a pretty good (by MSN standards) expose from Reuters about judging engaging in e.g. sex for lowered prison sentences, and AFAIK most of those judges are still on the bench.
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There seriously needs to be judicial reform centered around judges getting fuckin barred from employment when they do shit like this. If you take something up to the supreme Court and win you should be able to sue the judge and get them locked up.
 
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OrangeJuliusEvola said:
Is it just me or is the thread feeling kind of apocalyptic and a bit more blackpilled than usual today?

It might just be me. Yesterday, a dead fish washed up on the beach near where I live. It was one of those unearthly eyeless ones that usually live thousands of feet deep. Been feeling pretty ominous since then.
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No, it's true.
Ever since the eclipse, my dog occasionally levitates and speaks to me in a language I don't understand.
 
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