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Should be a wild four years.

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And his toddler? Did she also fuck around and find out?
It's shitty to drag kids into stuff like this, but it happens. That is very much expected when you are a public figure, and it's just so much more amplified today when we have internet.

At this point, she probably doesn't even remember what is said. How do you think she'll feel when she learns to read and gets to read about all the mean stuff said about his dad on the internet?

Like I said, politicians in high positions have it easy, they actually have a security detail with them. Part of the gig, unfortunately.
 
Harassing a father in front of his children is "I didn't suffer enough for my retarded bullshit life choices growing up" behavior.

Have a problem with the parent? Speak to them 1:1, don't humiliate the children. I don't see a politician being threatened, I see a child being humiliated.
 
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you can only cry wolf for so long before the wolves show up and no one cares anymore, or worse outright embraces it. "you gonna call me a fascist anyway, so might act as well..."

It's the warning they continue to ignore too. They already made more people than ever since the 90s not care about being called racist or bigot by fatiguing people and repeating it to exhaustion and the point it no longer sounds like a word, they already made people who were more than happy to go "Trannies? You mean those weird fellas who play dressup?" at worst to live and let be turn into vocal opposition to them after forcing them into the spotlight and raising the wrong kinds of awareness in the process.

We went from crime stat memes being a /pol/ thread to being posted by aunt gertrude on facebook and normalized on instagram reels after the summer of love and block burn downs.

And they were even retarded enough to fuck up escapism itself, so a lot of stress and aggression outlets are now clogged up by making every single leisure space shittier, movies, tv shows, videogames, board games, every dork ass nerd hobby to every working man's eye glaze over break activity from nascar to spotsball is now at least a little smeared in their ideological feces.

The more dipshit things they push and the more hateful and aggressive and violent they get towards random people and the common man. The closer the finger on the monkey's paw gets to curling and making their wish come true and they're absolutely too retarded and oblivious to grasp that if people ever did snap and lose their shit it will be entirely their own faults.

You can't make yourselves into what ordinary people perceive to be a rolling, screaming ball of shit that crashes into anything and everything anyone would ever care about for what feels like an entire generation at this point without a few people eventually coming to the conclusion that someone should maybe do something about that screaming ball of shit.

Even if not for any actual ideological reasons or extremism but if only to get some goddamn peace and quiet finally.


In autistic summary: I don't at all think that THE DEATH SQUADS are likely, required or even soon(tm), but these millions of absolute monkeys are working overtime with their millions of typewriters to type out nice long lists of reasons to convince the common man that one day, maybe. They could look the other way if some doors start being knocked.
 
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Harassing a father in front of his children is "I didn't suffer enough for my retarded bullshit life choices growing up" behavior.

Have a problem with the parent? Speak to them 1:1, don't humiliate the children. I don't see a politician being threatened, I see a child being humiliated.
I want to know why his secret service didn't shoot at them.
 
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This will be great to see, even as they let the bugmen in by the millions they will be destroyed because the queen decrees it. And all you had to do was not be a Portland/Berkeley level faggot on the liberal scale for your whole country. Rest in Piss.

looks like decades of cozying to china led to fucking nothing
how unsurprising
 
I bet you also let niggers fuck your girl just so that they don't call you the a sissy you are.

Imagine being the greatest military force in the world, being afraid of Russia and basically allowing Russia to dictate your foreign policy. How about you say to Russia "we will fucking nuke your ass if you do X".

But considering how cucked America seems to be, not really surprised that this is yours and your governments' attitude. Just let everyone else push you around.
Ah, mutt posting as well I see!
 
I still want to know what is so wrong with President Trump making the effort to at least get the two sides to the table to work out a cease-fire/armistice. He cannot enforce such a thing on either side, but President Trump is making an effort.

The Biden regime apparently had no plan at all to help bring an end to this conflict, according to Vice-President Vance. Apparently the Biden people were going to just keep shoveling out the money/stuff and hope Ukraine wins. Suggest the Biden regime could have tried to get the two sides together at least a year ago.

This war has turned out to be much like the Korean War. First year a war of movement, after that not much, lines stabilized until the armistice was reached. Russia very slowly grinds away at Ukraine, Ukraine still holding some Russian territory. Then you have the drone attacks, like something out of 1984, with Eurasia and Oceania firing the things at each other. All the time, people, men, women, and children, die.

This war has grievously damaged both countries demographically and economically. Ukraine cannot get to Moscow. Russia cannot take Kyiv. Why not just end this war, end the waste.
 
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Apparently some Ukraine protesters decided to spend their Saturday harassing Vance and his 3 year old today.
So fucking refreshing. How long has it been since we had a politician actually stop to talk to his critics/opponents/protesters instead of running like a bitch and hiding behind security personnel?

I guarantee you most of the people tailing him (the ones who "mostly agreed") were utterly astonished he stopped to talk to them like human beings and had literally no fucking clue how to respond to that. Protesting today is so mindless they really don't know what to do when the "opposition" goes off-script non-violently.
 
I still want to know what is so wrong with President Trump making the effort to at least get the two sides to the table to work out a cease-fire/armistice. He cannot enforce such a thing on either side, but President Trump is making an effort.

The Biden regime apparently had no plan at all to help bring an end to this conflict, according to Vice-President Vance. Apparently the Biden people were going to just keep shoveling out the money/stuff and hope Ukraine wins. Suggest the Biden regime could have tried to get the two sides together at least a year ago.

This war has turned out to be much like the Korean War. First year a war of movement, after that not much, lines stabilized until the armistice was reached. Russia very slowly grinds away at Ukraine, Ukraine still holding some Russian territory. Then you have the drone attacks, like something out of 1984, with Eurasia and Oceania firing the things at each other. All the time, people, men, women, and children, die.

This war has grievously damaged both countries demographically and economically. Ukraine cannot get to Moscow. Russia cannot take Kyiv. Why not just end this war, end the waste.
Because emotionally pride is a motherfucker and the EU is not ready to take this L. Biden definitely didn’t want it to end his foreign policy is going to be remembered as an unmitigated disaster.

But most of all these wars are being led by politicians who want to stay in power and I think the EU could really be fucked if they can’t stop blowing thru war money. Germany is in a recession and last I checked will be for years I think they have to keep building weapons for Ukraine.

Remember WW2 got us out of the depression. Now why we can’t just have governments invest money in things that don’t get people brutally killed I truly don’t know. They never taught me that in school. I would think Germany could take the Ukraine Mineral deal and spend a fortune building up Ukraine but apparently the USA has to do that.
 
At this point, she probably doesn't even remember what is said. How do you think she'll feel when she learns to read and gets to read about all the mean stuff said about his dad on the internet?
Did you also smugly concern-troll online about how screaming expletives at kids is fine, actually when this happened? Why or why not?
 
Apple has a pretty high markup. This source says:
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An iPhone is sold at 119% above cost.

Apple can easily "afford" to eat a tariff increase. Whether they do that depends on politics and marketing.

Apple announced $500 billion investment in the US

When TSMC announced $100 billion in new chip factories in America the CEO made sure to say Apple and other companies made the deal possible.

Tim "Apple" Cook was at the inauguration.

Trump has "went to bat" for the tech companies by telling Europe to fuck off with their lawsuits against the tech companies.

So far, tech companies are going along with Trumps plans. If that continues I would think they would avoid price hikes blamed on tarrifs.
That's markup from the "cost to make." Does that include shipping, costs of operating the storefront, warranty, marketing/corporate overhead, etc.?
The tarrif is paid on the cost of the imported good. Marketing and operating expenses don't increase from tariffs. When importing a $500 iPhone, every 10% of tarrif is $50. $50 is 4.5% of the $1100 retail price of the iPhone.

This source says Apple has an operating profit margin of 30% before taxes. US sales make up 1/3 of total sales. That means a 10% US tariff hits their overall operating profit margin at 1.5%.

Apple can "afford" to "eat" a 10% US tarrif and have a 28.5% operating profit.

Extra detail: Apple's operating margins in the Americas is 37%. A 10% US tariff would "eat" 4.5% of that (result: 32.5% margin).
 
PSA: REFUSE TO be a useful idiot for the Islamic "Republic" of Iran, the Qataris, or the CCP. The internet's got enough of those monkeys flying around rn I think.

Apple can "afford" to "eat" a 10% US tarrif and have a 28.5% operating profit.
Why would Apple not pass the tariff onto consumers in the form of price increases? And how about any firms trying to compete with Apple? Potentially even operating at a loss currently?
 
The Biden regime apparently had no plan at all to help bring an end to this conflict, according to Vice-President Vance. Apparently the Biden people were going to just keep shoveling out the money/stuff and hope Ukraine wins. Suggest the Biden regime could have tried to get the two sides together at least a year ago.
That's actually a lie that Trump admin keeps using against Biden. For whatever it's worth, Biden had made it his foreign policy to attempt to stop that war with more effort than he used on the Hamas war. He even got the Europeans on board. Ultimately it didn't amount to much. See, for example:

I might be missing more (I am ignoring the various summits where Western powers went into circle jerk sessions, as those had no actual value)

So, the newfound anger at the peacetalks is even stranger from that perspective.
 
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