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Someone please steelman this for me. What's the reason to NOT designate them as terror organizations? US overreach into another country makes sense. What else?
Well designated terror groups have a whole heap of dangers from the US government attached to anyone financing/transacting/supporting them even if not with direct knowledge. Imagine a bank or financial institution that gets caught acting as an intermediary for al qaeda or ISIS or whatever and the storm of shit coming their way. Mexico is an actual narco state where the economy runs through and is sustained by the cartels.

If I had to guess the jewess in charge is afraid that designating cartels terror orgs will make international finance and investors leary of doing business in mehico lest they accidentally end up in bed with a now designated terrorist group and uncle sam (or more accurately Trump) uses it as an excuse to start tearing off pounds of flesh. Especially if he is upset at something else they did. The federal infrastructure and laws to punish companies/groups/individuals helping "terror organizations" are already overarching and in place since 9/11 so doesn't need to jump through hoops with congress or anyone else in order to start fucking them.
 
tbh Id support Canada going in as multiple states rather then just one giant state,
Outside of memes like calling the entire place "North Dakota 2", This would make the most sense.
also the UK we could just make England,Scotland,and Wales their own states
If annexing the UK were on the table (it's not) this would make sense
and give Northern Ireland back to Ireland,
This is like giving America back to the Indians, Northern Ireland has been British longer than America has existed, and the majority there are ethnic descendants of British/Scottish colonists.
Britain is in the worst situation out of any European country and id support invading them in order to save them from themselves, its a totalitarian shithole and a Neoliberal version of North Korea at this point
I actually do wonder how successful such an annexation would be, the white Britons don't seem terribly incompatible with American/Canadian whites. But the downside would be 1) a large population of pajeets/Pakis, and 2) it would drag us back into European politics at a time when Trump is trying to extract us from that.
 
Trump's hostage envoy Adam Boehler demands release of all hostages: "If I have one piece of advice for Hamas now-- if I were them I'd release everybody or they're going to face total annihilation right now." Hamas is still holding one American citizen hostage and the bodies of four others.

 
tbh that's not bad, we got, what, $2k a mo?

Insurance is probably high, and no health care, but $2k a month is quite respectable, $10/hr should cover that no problem. Get to the quickymart!
i have no sympathy for the feds, but not even close. if you have a 10/hr job working 40 hours a week, you make 800 USD per check. being super generous, we'll take about 15% of the gross for taxes but in DC i'm sure it's a buttfuck higher.

that leaves you with 680 per check. deduct 200 in food (reasonable amount for a mother and child, which is what we're discussing here) and you have 480. deduct 30 for slower internet (you're a black woman, you don't need fast internet, you're not gaming or uploading massive files) and you have 450.

let's take out 50 for two weeks of gas, 400.

car insurance at 155 is actually a pretty good rate for a single black mother. 245.

let's say she cuts her personal expenses in half. 145.

putting that into her 400 dollar car payment, you can find that her next 800 dollar 2 week check at $10/hr will not actually cover even her rent alone, let alone the rest of her car debt. this is also assuming genuinely restrictive spending to say she has enough to keep her and her baby healthy in how they eat. this doesn't even consider the potential cost of insurance from an employer, which is utterly ridiculous at this stage for certain providers like United Healthcare sometimes eating up to a third of a 30 hour employee's salary even at 14-15 dollars an hour.

what this should tell you, and everyone else who reads this, is that you should be forming a family unit to support one another, because it is impossible to do it alone ESPECIALLY if you plan to have children.
 
So brain-broken. The interviewer can't even say "Putin" without an involuntary snarl...
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I didn't watch the other clip posted, but I thought this one was pretty good. She let him answer the question, didn't talk over him, didn't try to "correct" him, and didn't push too much for a gotcha, although maybe a little bit when pressing for a date to talk to Putin. Kind of refreshing, actually.
Has Trump said anything about the hostages yet? He was promising hellfire if they weren't all returned alive.
If I was going to rain hellfire on someone I wouldn't announce my plans ahead of time.
Covid normalized masks in public. Now only paranoid leftists and ugly people use it to hide behind.
And criminals. Don't forget the criminals.
Younger Kiwis, it's hard to overstate how different this transparency is. For the longest time if someone like the Secretary of Defense spoke it would strictly be in platitudes. You would gain nothing from hearing them speak. Hearing Hegseth break down in clear terms the plan/goals going forward feels unreal. It feels obvious. Like the way it should have always been. Yet, also unreal.
Right? I don't remember it in my old lifetime, even. Could the era of Trust Me Bro be coming to an end?
 
Someone please steelman this for me. What's the reason to NOT designate them as terror organizations? US overreach into another country makes sense. What else?
The best steelman argument I could come up with is that cartels are basically the local government in some areas, plus they have strong influence at the national level. So if you considered them a political party for those reasons, then maybe that would fall under the "U.S. overreach" argument.

Still a weak argument as cartels are pretty terrible all around and are a huge reason why Mexico and the U.S. border are both violent shit shows.
 
Trump is going to moscow to meet with putin soon. I don't like that. That's not a secure area at all. Just talk over the damned phone or something dudes.
I'm sure the new Secret Service director is making sure Moscow won't be a repeat of Butler.
The Department of Justice is investigating the billing practices of UnitedHealth: "DOJ investigating Medicare Advantage billing practices at UnitedHealth Group" (archive). Read the archive to get around the paywall, if you want to read the whole article. WSJ first reported this.

If the Trump administration cuts the Democrats off at the pass on healthcare insurance fuckery, I will pass out laughing.
Now will conservatives on talk radio cover this or continue to defend the healthcare industry?
 
I honestly don't know how the DOJ will fight this one as by their own rules a TRO cannot be appealed so how are they to break the order if they cannot bring it to a higher authority?
You don't. You ignore it like the toilet paper it is. What is that Federal judge going to do? Send in the US Marshals? I can't wait to see that Mexican stand-off between the US Marshals and the US Secret Service. I expect a lot of laughing and beer consumption.
 
is there any particular reason the thread moves like a crackhead in the middle of the night but only hits one page per hour during the workday?
but $2k a month is quite respectable,
thats 2k net, meaning it requires about 3k gross. which is about $18/hr, which is actually minimum wage in DC, but the problem there is hitting 40 hrs.
 
is there any particular reason the thread moves like a crackhead in the middle of the night but only hits one page per hour during the workday?
Turns out Kiwi Farmers tend to have jobs that require them to work during the day. Meanwhile, I remember the feddit activity graphs being the exact opposite. Not that it was a stretch to say that Kiwifarmers are more effective than the US Government, but its nice to have data to back it up.
 
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