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Should be a wild four years.

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haven't been there in ages and were sent by a government completely unrelated to the current one in any way
you might as well appeal to me as The Guy Across The Hall because the guy who rented that place three tenants ago found my cat
They helped a lot in gulf war 1 and afghanistan. only 800 or so legionnaires but they worked their asses off while they were there.
 
"I don't think a pair of shoes should cost 600 dollars, there's no way they cost nearly that much to produce if even half of that"
"BRO WHAT'RE YOU RETARDED?"
Oh, I'm the retard. Right. Hey, if you wanna be robbed it's not my decision, being happy about it is odd though.
I don’t know dude maybe buy an American brand. I got my shoes for just $80.
 
I honestly don't care about what the Lugenpresse has to say. It usually takes months if not years of due diligence and expert evaluations to strike any metallurgy deal to make sure there's actually anything to mine at all. Tons of companies went bust in the early 20th century because they invested into something that wasn't there. The way Trump is being pressured to close the deal in days when not a single US evaluator has been on location is bad enough. Seeing Lindsay Graham cheer for it is worse.
At least the deal doesn't involve security guarantees. So, worst case scenario of there being no minerals, we don't lose anything, I believe.
 
There is no such thing as some naturally just price. If the price is too high to be reasonable, nobody would buy it and the price would go down. In a non-keynesian unregulated economy, people would be incentivized to save and not consoom which was a byproduct of Keynesianism promoting spending to stimulate the economy and increasing time preference.
Nobody buys half of this shit and the price never goes down. That might make sense if our pricing reflected reality and not whatever number somebody pulls out of their ass and then defends. Real estate pricing in new york is a good example of this, they never go down no matter how many empty buildings there are, for some reason everyone would rather collapse the entirety of society than to actually price things reasonably. And for some reason people defend this.
 
"I don't think a pair of shoes should cost 600 dollars, there's no way they cost nearly that much to produce if even half of that"
"BRO WHAT'RE YOU RETARDED?"
Oh, I'm the retard. Right. Hey, if you wanna be robbed it's not my decision, being happy about it is odd though.
The economy is fake and gay.
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In 2020 the Financial industry was 28% of domestic corporate profits (1.9T/6.8T). That is just the obvious profits reported going to the Financial industry.

Every industry is "financialized" and leveraged to the hilt. The US corporate economy could be described as desperately using one credit card to pay off another credit card in an ever growing house of cards.

Companies make money by "rent seeking". Simplified, the only way to stay in business now is to figure out how to erect a "tollbooth" somewhere in the economy and gouge what remaining customers exist.

Products and services exist if they can be contorted to extract the required percentage demanded by the rent seeking financializers.
 
Im all for good natured jokes but dont get the shit twisted, your talking ALOT of shit about the people who sent THOUSANDS so we might have a nation

WE are the ungrateful ones to forget that
Never forget Edmond-Charles Genêt, the French diplomat who tried very hard to drag the United States into (another) war with the British. Genêt sought "repayment" for France's assistance in the American Revolution by goading American privateers into capturing British ships, mostly for the purposes of trying to install the Girondins in post-Revolution French government (Note: the Girondins had interesting leadership who worshiped niggers as gods.) Genêt blatantly lied to both France and Britain that Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton were totally onboard with the Girondins. Obviously Washington (who favored neutrality at all costs) did not support this, did not like someone lying to such a degree it would cause a war, and asked France to have Genêt deported. France refused due to the fact that Genêt was a massive faggot who ruined French relations with Russia's Catherine the Great and, unsurprisingly, also nearly caused a war there as well. France was eventually prepared to accept Genêt back for the purposes of putting him in a guillotine, which led to him begging Washington for his life and marrying into a humble family of farmers known as the Clintons.

tl;dr - Whenever a frog goes "What about the American Revolution?", remember this faggot Genêt who tried the same trick to start wars and further French liberalist faggotry. Some historians (and me) believe that this single guy is the reason Americans and the British get along sometimes, while Americans have an enduring hatred of froggots.
 
Republican House Members Told to Stop Holding In-Person Town Halls
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Catie Edmondson
2025-03-04 18:23:58GMT

I can sorta understand the point here of wanting to avoid drama from protests, but does the GOP not realize the benefits far outweigh the drama?

It's really strong propaganda material. "Republicans will hear your complaints, Democrats will ignore you and pretend you don't exist." "Your Republican representative can actually be reached and spoken with, unlike the Democrat who is never there."
 
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