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If I had to guess this mineral deal was always the plan in the first place. Trump knew it, Putin knew it, and most importantly Zelensky knew it. I think the slap fighting in the meantime is so Zelensky didn't look like he did absolutely nothing to secure something. Trump shows up with a deal that Zelensky doesn't want, Zelensky acts like a tough guy for a week and then they negotiate a "new deal".

I'm not even saying this is a bad thing, Ukraine has been a plaything for both the US and Russia to fight over for three years now. The people there have to know this and to have two giants come in and shake hands with no regard for their president or their people that died would be disastrous. They have to see that their president (that they can't vote on) was able to at least stand up and get them something for their trouble. Hopefully we'll see the end to the rest of the war soon.
 
An anti-ICE group based in Los Angeles called the Community Self-Defense Coalition is training members how to interfere with ICE operations. The group successfully disrupted two operations on Monday.

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So nice for this guy to show up on TV and say that he's interfering with federal operations!
 
isn't this illegal
remember, these people want to break laws for criminals, but would never let you break laws if it helped your family. if you tried to avoid taxes they'd chastise and report you so that your heckin' tax dollars fund more trannies in bulgaria.

"luckily, we were able to defend those communities from the ICE raids" is literally this fat spic telling you, and me, and every legal mexican here that he'd rather have child rapists and gang members than upstanding citizens of the same country. i hope the next burger he eats gives him a coronary.

Depends on what they're doing. If they're simply yelling "ICE IS IN THE AREA" that technically isn't obstruction. Gay as fuck, but still not illegal
there's precedent in some places that warning people who are engaged in criminal activity that police or law enforcement are coming can be tried as accessories to the act. not impossible for them to get them with this, especially if the exec works hard to make it happen.

in other news, glad to see the ukrainians have taken the deal. trump did what he always does. offer a completely unacceptable deal up front, and then lower it down to much more acceptable terms for the opposition.
 
isn't this illegal
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I am conflicted about whether it should be or not, but I believe this qualifies as speech that has lead or will lead to imminent lawless action, not protected by the foist amenmint.

Attatched is Brandenburg v. Ohio for anyone who wants to take a break from refreshing the thread and actually read something constructive
 

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I'm still convinced she has dirt on both Lucas and Spielberg which is why they handed her the keys in the first place. She probably had dirt on Iger too but since he's stepping down soon, she couldn't leverage it over him anymore to keep her job.
She along with her husband were two of the most prolific producers in Hollywood, and she produced a large amount of Spielberg’s movies. She 100% has dirt on him, but the main reason she was put in charge at Lucas film is because she was born a woman and someone with such a large career that any problem she had could be defended with “she was a producer in raiders of the lost arc” and any other number of big films.
But she was never given this much power before and she’s clearly a bitter old woman now
 
Lucas baiting the last few pages with you retards chomping like mad pitbulls on a baby tells me nothing interesting has happened today.

Where the fuck is my Epstein list Pam?
Patel got sworn in and his samosa boys quietly deleted the files. Patel was a bad pick. We got played. You know it; I know it; everyone knows it!
 
You love your idea of India, which was my point with Ramaswamy. He didn't hate America, he loved his idea of what America could be. No different than how leftists see themselves not as haters of the America but lovers of the socialist shit hole they want it to be. It all boils down to perspective.
I love my idea of India where it's a smoldering radioactive crater devoid of all life 🥰🥰🥰
 
50% resource rights and without having to give a single security guarantee. Can't stop winning

dude you do understand that in repayment for the billions and billions "loaned" to the Ukraine for the war right?

Yes, this is nice but it hardly touches the full amount of money that Biden gave away to his cronies in Ukraine.
 
dude you do understand that in repayment for the billions and billions "loaned" to the Ukraine for the war right?

Yes, this is nice but it hardly touches the full amount of money that Biden gave away to his cronies in Ukraine.
seems like he intends to continue pulling more money out of this, as the article says there will be more agreements signed, and once we're already in, once we've got control of the infrastructure... how is he going to say now at that point? venezuela isn't doing so hot after doing that same thing.

time to designate them as a terrorist organization i guess
they're actively supporting potential terrorists with no concern. they will outright tell you if you ask them that they would do this even if these people were known to them to be guilty of raping kids. it's all about not deporting the browns. i say label ALL of them as actual terrorists and begin the work.
 
Phony Filoni will most likely fill in her seat and fuck up the lore even more.
Star wars nerds: Rey sucked because she was good at everything and was super powerful out of nowhere. MARY SUE!!!
Also Star wars nerds: OMG ahsoka is bad ass! Best character ever! She is good at everything so I love her!
Patel got sworn in and his samosa boys quietly deleted the files. Patel was a bad pick. We got played. You know it; I know it; everyone knows it!
Even I'll admit the timing of everything is...questionable. but hopefully the NSA has backup copies.
 
dude you do understand that in repayment for the billions and billions "loaned" to the Ukraine for the war right?

Yes, this is nice but it hardly touches the full amount of money that Biden gave away to his cronies in Ukraine.
Most of what we gave Ukraine was old equipment and ordinance, not actual money. It's shit we would have tried to foist off or scrap anyway except in this case we're actually getting something for it worthwhile
 
there's precedent in some places that warning people who are engaged in criminal activity that police or law enforcement are coming can be tried as accessories to the act. not impossible for them to get them with this, especially if the exec works hard to make it happen.
A young THX1138 was driving down a rural Indiana road one fine summer evening, passed a cop on the shoulder. Realized my brights were on just as I passed him. I clicked them off. Cop pulls out, full lights and siren going, gets on my bumper. He's in full on Barney Fife mode when he walks up, threatening to haul me to jail for warning oncoming traffic about his speed trap.

There were no oncoming cars yet. All I'd done is dim my lights. But there he stood making a federal case out of it that I had tried to warn other drivers. Very tense moment for me. So yeah, you can get in trouble with the heat for "interfering" (and they'll define what "interfering" means). Not, mind you, that I sympathize with people trying to hide illegals: that's a different kettle of fish.
 
One of the last gasps of this was the fucking Shang Chi marvel movie, specifically made to kiss china’s ass, not being allowed to play in Chinese theaters.
Its a trait of america's "think as far as next quarter" mentality going up against the chink's "think as close as next century" mentality. the chinese were obviously using american films as a stopgap until they can create their own versions of american blockbusters, its why they mainly only allowed blockbusters. the MCU was a loss leader for chink theaters so that their citizens would get used to going to movies and then once they're there they can see chinese comedies or dramas or war epics and its why they were only allowing US films for about a decade before stopping it almost altogether.

the film studios never bothered realizing "this will stop eventually" and so just continued on as if it would always be the way and it caused billions in losses because of it.

same way streaming is destroying the film industry, going from a 90 day window to 30 day meant people stopped giving a shit which lead to box office grosses dropping and now movies having budgets on par with netflix shows. sure it seemed like a good idea back in 2020 in order to make money, but it has near permanently destroyed hollywood. Your average actor is going to make more money and have more clout making videos on TikTok vs starring in the latest bullshit films.

AI catching up if not exceeding the writing and special effects of hollywood doesn't help either. But yeah china really fucked america by getting America hooked on making an easy quarter billion any time their movie released in china and then stopping that which lead to a massive downswing for movie studios grosses and having to decrease the budgets of their films which also lead to films in general looking smaller and worse. Beetlejuice 2 was one of the biggest films from last year and it looks like like a glorified made for tv movie, like something you'd have seen on the disney channel 20 years ago.
It's tough to get accurate, reliable numbers on book sales, but I'd wager there wasn't a single EU novel that moved less than 100K copies in English,
there was at least one star wars book on the New york times best sellers list for like 20 years. it was such a norm that the authors didn't even consider it an accomplishment. there hasn't been one in a decade either.
Teachers had stacks of tickets to hand out to every kid in class, factories had stacks of tickets to hand out to all their workers
JUST LIKE BLACK PANTHER! Why can the american government bribe its citizens with free tickets but not the chinks?
 
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